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7 - Advanced Field Theory Topics

from Part II - Infrared Behavior, 2PI, I/N, Backreaction and Semiclassical Gravity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2020

Bei-Lok B. Hu
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
Enric Verdaguer
Affiliation:
Universitat de Barcelona
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Summary

In this chapter we construct the closed-time-path (CTP) two-particle-irreducible (2PI) effective action to two-loop order. The CTP formalism introduced in Chapter 3 is needed to track the dynamics of expectation values and to produce real and causal equations of motion. The composite particle or 2PI formalism introduced in Chapter 6 is needed to treat critical phenomena, because the correlation function and the mean field act as independent variables, instead of the former being a derivative of the latter, as in the 1PI formulation. The large N expansion has the advantage of yielding nonperturbative evolution equations in the regime of strong mean field and a covariantly conserved stress-energy tensor. To leading order in large N, the quantum effective action for the matter fields can be interpreted as a leading-order term in the expansion of the full matter plus gravity quantum effective action, which produces equations of motion for semiclassical gravity and, at the next-to-leading order in large N, stochastic gravity. Two types of quantum fields are treated: (a) O(N) self-interacting Phi-4 fields, and (b) Yukawa coupling between scalar and spinor fields, as an example of dealing with fermions in curved spacetime.

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Semiclassical and Stochastic Gravity
Quantum Field Effects on Curved Spacetime
, pp. 228 - 264
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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